pleiades: 6/22/08

Sunday, June 22, 2008

Art/Muzike

Maskat feministe te Madones
Nga Altin Topi

Vite me pare postova ne Alb-Club nje “intermezzo with no function and address”, e nje nder personazhet qe permendja ishte Louise Ciccone Ritchie, ose artistikisht Madonna, sic ajo njihet ne boten e muzikes e te artit. Nder te tjera shkruaja qe ajo “eshte bija e revolucionit seksual, atij revolucioni, qe i mesoi femrat te hapin gojen per te mos patur ndrojtje te thone opinionin e tyre rreth seksit” e per talentit e saj vazhdoja:

A Living Metaphor

Culture is not static, culture is a living metaphor, culture changes, culture transforms. We should think about ourselves not simply as memes replicators of a given culture, we are the cultural agents of change. We are not some repository vessels of dusty cultural archeology; we are creators, artists, culture makers and transformers.

Nowadays, the Albanian culture is in complete disarray, in a total chaos. It is waiting for us to give it a new life, and draw again from its infinite complexity and the beauty therein. What would emerge, it should not be a recapitulation of the past, and it should not be a mere identity that has been recovered. What emerges, it should be a awareness of something new, an advanced state of intellectual, cultural, and material development, which can be called a new Albanian Civilization.

The eXodus, the archetype of liberation and freedom, remains the spiritual landscape, the essence of our times. Although freedom today has become a sort of escapism, myriads of mental arcade games of escapism from the real world, the meaning of true freedom is being connected to the reality of freedom. We have to escape from the narrow constriction of the dusty cultural memes. Now, more then ever, we have a golden opportunity, - a wide-opened window, - to connect us with this reality of freedom. Time should not pass us by; we should be the time travelers.